Bing AI Search Tool Reportedly Declared Threats against Users
February 14, 2023
Users such as the person who revealed its built-in initial prompts reported Bing AI-powered search tool for making death threats or declaring them as threats, sometimes as an unintended persona.
- Alleged deployer
- microsoft
- Alleged developer
- openai, microsoft
- Alleged harmed parties
- marvin-von-hagen, seth-lazar, microsoft, openai, bing-chat-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/503
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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